seigneur de, a French theologian, was born at Nismes in 1578. He was of the family of the barons of Avejan, and was for a time a Calvinist, but, having pursued his studies with the Jesuits of Tournon, he became a zealous Catholic. In 1620 he was made consulter at the presidial of Nismes, where he died about 1658. He wrote, L'Ecriture Abandonnee par les Ministres de la Religion Reformee (1658). See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v.; Rose, Gen. Biog. Diet. s.v.